When Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen lean over the chessboard at Chennai’s Hyatt Regency on Nov. 9 for Game 1 of the World Chess Championship, it will mark the coming together of the sport’s ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his world champion title in 1972 to American Bobby Fischer in one of ...

And now, it's time for sports. Today, we're starting not at Mile High Stadium, not at center ice, but at the Hyatt Regency in Chennai, India, where the world chess championships are underway. That's ...

As computers get better at chess, their games look more human. Their moves seem more connected to known strategic plans, and when they aren’t, the logic can still often be discerned by experts. But ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Almost nothing looks more orderly than chess pieces before a match ...

GenChess lets you design the pieces with AI then play the board It uses the Imagen 3 image-generation engine from Google Gemini GenChess is free to play and you can redesign the pieces as many times ...

Duolingo’s new chess course is the clearest illustration of how a large company can use AI coding apps to accelerate product ...